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Saturday, 4-August-2007 12:57:30 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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A Russian sub has used a robotic arm to plant a flag under the North Pole recently. Under international law, the five states with territory inside the Arctic Circle -- Canada, Norway, Russia, the United States and Denmark via its control of Greenland -- have a 320 km (200 mile) economic zone around the north of their coastline. Russia is claiming a larger slice extending as far as the pole because, Moscow says, the Arctic seabed and Siberia are linked by one continental shelf.
WoW grinders rejoice, there's another expansion on the way, thanks Icidic. Discussion near the end of our gargantuan WoW thread.
Microsoft have released a Direct3D 10.1 preview with Shader Model 4.1, thanks Cdr_Zero. The new DSK also comes with XAudio2 Beta, a new cross-platform audio API, supporting cross-platform DSP effects, per-voice filtering, arbitrary submixing, and multi-rate processing.
Meanwhile there's leaked Vista hot fixes all around, thanks Nick. The list of fixes -- which include performance improvements to Vista's sleep mode and speed increases in copying or moving large directories -- led some users yesterday to speculate that the updates were the forerunner of Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), a major upgrade that many businesses want to see before they widely deploy the new operating system.
NASA have postponed Endeavour's launch by 24h. The launch now is targeted for Wednesday, Aug. 8, at 6:36 p.m. EDT from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Meanwhile they've announced web coverage and a blog for the mission. A live webcast featuring astronaut Joan Higginbotham, who flew aboard space shuttle Discovery in December 2006, will start the in-depth coverage of the mission at 11:30 a.m. EDT on Aug. 7.
Rik sent in another nice wood case project. Instead of buying a new case, I decided to design and build something I could really call my own. I've always loved wooden furniture, and my father had a lot of woodworking tools readily available, so I opted to make a wooden case.
From DiGiTaL_MoNkEy: Intel will be launching new four core 45nm Intel Core Extreme "Penryn" processors in Q4 2007, a few months ahead of schedule. The top of the line proc is likely to hit 3.33GHz, run a 1333MHz system bus and hold 12MB of L2 cache. Only about 2-3% of Intel's chips will go 45nm in 2007, but that number should double by around Q2 2008, and it seems Intel needed to accelerate things to head off competition from AMD's upcoming Phenom processors. Info here.
Some PSU reviews: 600W Nesteq Nova External on Bit-Tech, Ultra X3 1600W (video review) on 3DGameMan and Gigabyte ODIN GT 800W on Anandtech, thanks 16c_Killer.
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